■ noun
1》 a large dish with a lid, used for cooking food slowly in an oven.
2》 a kind of stew cooked slowly in an oven.
■ verb cook slowly in a ~.
Origin
C18: from Fr., dimin. of casse 'spoon-like container', from Old Provençal casa , from late L. cattia 'ladle, pan', from Gk kuathion , dimin. of kuathos 'cup'.